SCANDALS: The Lockheed Mystery (Contd.)

Like the Watergate scandal from which it
once sprouted, the Lockheed scandal seems to have acquired a quality of
indestructibility. Even when the charges of corruption are officially
denied, they keep reappearing as rumors and innuendoes. Last week, as
the scandal once again rippled across Europe, a parliament debated
whether to prosecute a prince, a Premier was publicly accused of graft,
and a former Defense Minister repeated his assertions that he had done
nothing wrong. The only certainty was that the Lockheed Aircraft Corp.,
the largest defense contractor in the U.S., has...